Design and protocol for a cluster randomised trial of enhanced diagnostics for tuberculosis screening among people living with HIV in hospital in Malawi (CASTLE study).

Design and protocol for a cluster randomised trial of enhanced diagnostics for tuberculosis screening among people living with HIV in hospital in Malawi (CASTLE study).

<h4>Background</h4>People living with HIV (PLHIV) have a high risk of death if hospitalised in low-income countries. Tuberculosis has long been the leading cause of admission and death, in part due to suboptimal diagnostics. Two promising new diagnostic tools are digital chest Xray with...

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Main Authors: Rachael M Burke, Saulos Nyirenda, Hussein H Twabi, Marriott Nliwasa, Elizabeth Joekes, Naomi Walker, Rose Nyirenda, Ankur Gupta-Wright, Katherine Fielding, Peter MacPherson, Elizabeth L Corbett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261877

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261877

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